Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLESilence is more eloquent than words.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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